Server side column searching

HitchinsIT

I've been looking at this bit of documentation on column searches : http://www.datatables.net/examples/api/multi_filter.html

I can't seem to work out if it's possible to have the filtering run server side rather than in the client. I have a large JSON data source that would be too memory & bandwidth intensive to load it fully before filtering.

If anyone knows how to achieve this, please let me know!